"Never in my two and a half decades in trading has there been a time where there’s more consensus amongst market participants of what the future holds. Look at a poll of views from experts on where they think the oil price will be next year and you’ll find that the predicted number is closely clustered together in the mid to high $50s. I’ve never seen such a consensus that is volatility reducing. Part of our purpose is to help our customers mitigate market imbalances and cope with volatile market conditions. The less uncertainty, the less demand there will be for certain services provided by traders. But history would suggest markets never go into hibernation very long."

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"While previous industry revolutions gave industry new tools, the fourth revolution gives us new knowledge. Every day, the keeper of this knowledge – the internet of things – is adding five million new devices (we’ll go from today’s 8 billion connected devices to a trillion by 2030). Yet at the same time, the industrial world is still only in the very early stages of tapping into this new intelligence: While 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years, only a miniscule portion of this data has been analyzed or used."

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